Improvement in presses



UNITED STATES GEORGE MERRILL, OF NEWYORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO ISAAC F.DI'BSON,l

PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,735, dated February22, 1876; application. filed January 28, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE MERRILL, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines orApparatus for Pressing Meats, Vegetables, or various other matters, orfor pressing and stamping butter; and I do hereby declare the same' tobe fully described inthe following specification and represented in theaccompanying drawings, of' which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 avertical section, and Fig. 3 a horizontal section, of a press of myimproved kind. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a butterstamp to be usedwith such press, and inthe place of its rcmovable perforated bottom 5and Fig. 5, a per spective view of the stand I.

In such drawings,A denotes a strong hollow cylinder or case,`open ateach end, and provided at its middle with a handle, a, hinged to it soas to fold against its outer surface or turn out at right anglestherewith. It also has at or near each end a pair \of loops or rings, BB and B B', which are hinged to its outer surface, one pair,BB,beingintended to loop over and upon the ends of a bar, O,'extendingdiametrically across the top ofthe case, and having a long screw, D,screwed into and through its Vmiddle and intothe case, and against ametallic disk or follower, E, arranged therein as represented. To thelower end of the case there is a movable anged bottom, F, perforatedwith numerous holes, a, and provided with two ears, b b, to enter thelower pair of rings or clasps B B', which, when looped on the said ears,serve with them to confine the bottom to the case. In the place of thisperforated bottom the butter-stamp, also provided with ears, as shown atb b', may be used when it may be desirable to employr the press forpressing and stamping butter or other matter. Within the case isanotherhollow but prismatic case or strainer, G, having its sidesforaminous, it, at the junctions of its sides, resting against the innerperiphery of the case. The object of this prismatic strainer G is tofacilitate the removal of liquid from the matter to 'be pressed.

bottom.

Instead of being prismatic the strainer may be corrugated vertically, soas to form channels lengthwise in it, from end to end of it.

In preserving meat or other matter a solid plate or a woven-wire diskmay be used in the movable bottom to-coverl its holes, if desirable.

By turning the screw, which is provided with a hand-wheel, h, so as toforce the follower E down within the foraminous case,

meat or other matter, when therein, may be pressed.

The stand for the press is shown at I, also in perspective view iu Fig.5. It is a Haring ring, provided with rabbets fand notches g g, to`receive the bottom of the press. said press is in an upright position,also has larger notches h h' made in it, all heilig as represented,these latter notches being to receive the press when in a horizontalposition.

The bottom is perforated to allow liquid from a material, while beingpressed, to escape. When fat is pressed from the -meat it will pass boththrough the inner case and the 3. The annular stand I, provided withtheV rabbetsf and notches g h', arranged in it as, and for use with thepress as explained.

GEO. MERRILL.

Witnesses:

. EDwD. P. BRAY,

IsAAc F. DoBsoN.

It, when The mode of using the press for-

